We Sell Drugs
The Alchemy of US Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19970059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanna Reiss (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 328 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | We Sell Drugs (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520280779.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4232704077 |
| Open Library | OL27549205M |
| ISBN | 9780520280779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
This history of U.S.-led international drug control provides new perspective on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. U.S. officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II, at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied in the growing economic clout of its pharmaceutical industry. The study is grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca leaf and coca-derived commodities market stretching from Peru and Bolivia into the United States. Coca was one of two controlled substances foundational to international drug control. More than a narrow account of the biography of one famous plant and its equally famous offspring—Coca-Cola and cocaine—the study situates these commodities within the larger landscape of drug production and consumption. Examining efforts to control the circuits through which coca traveled provides a geographic and legal anchor for considering the historical construction of designations of legality and illegality. The book argues the legal status of any given drug was premised not on the qualities of the drug itself but rather on who it was who grew, manufactured, distributed, and consumed it. Drug control became part of a powerful toolbox for ordering international trade, national economies, and peoples’ habits and daily lives. In a historical landscape animated by struggles over political economy, national autonomy, colonialism, and racial equality, the book insists on the sociohistorical underpinnings of designations of legality to explore how drug control became a major weapon for ordering domestic and international affairs
Archaeology · Coca · Consumption (sociology) · Drug control · Economics · Economy · Empire · Geography · Geopolitics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Balance of power · Drug Abuse · Pharmaceutical industry · politics and government · united states
The Art of Trafficking
Paradise Lost?” Miami and Militarization in the War on Drugs
The Philippines, the United States, and the Origins of Global Narcotics Prohibition
Geopolitical imagination and the US war on drugs against China
Absolutely the worst drug I’ve ever seen”
Securitising transnational crime
Laboratory of Empire
From Alternative Development to Decolonisation
Chasing Cocaine along the Caribbean Coast
Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire
In Their Places
Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity
From Exception to Empire
Afterword
A diplomatic failure
Drug Stigma, Consumer Culture, and Corporate Power in the Opioid Crisis
Beneficent destinations
Pharmaceutical pacification
Neoliberalism and the Global Migrant Crisis
Drug control, violence and capitalism in an international perspective
Drugs, Violence, and Capitalism
Contesting the 'War on Drugs' in the Andes
Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars' Queer Children
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |